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Maine Top Stories FROM PAGE AI voted the No. 6 story. LePage, who opposes wind power, said Statoil’s project would have pushed high costs onto utility customers. The No. 7 story was a refer endum vote in which Portland became the first East Coast city to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The refer endum was largely symbolic since the state already decrim inalized possession of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana. Tied for the No. 8 story were the warming Atlantic Ocean and the killing of a teenager who police say was lured by a man using a fake Facebook profile. Over the summer, the water temperature was the third highest on record and coin cided with a decline in phy toplankton, a key part of the ocean food chain. An Ozono man, meanwhile, was accused of creating a fake Facebook profile and using it to set up a meeting with 15-year-old Nichole Cable, of Glenburn, before killing her May 12. Kyle Dube is awaiting trial on a murder charge The 10th-ranked story was a series of three major fires in downtown Lewiston in just over a week that destroyed nine buildings and left nearly 200 people homeless. Two 12- year-old boys and two men were charged with setting the fires in Maine's second largest city Other stories getting votes were the state repaying its hos pitals for Medicaid services; a polar bear attacking a Maine attorney in Canada; L.L. Bean tapping Bean’s great-grand son to serve as chairman; a spate of methamphetamine lab busts; the debate over so-called tar sands oil; and the Navy’s decision to scrap the USS Miami submarine, which was set afire in 2012 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. With PHO Left: In this June 26 file photo, Gov. Paul LePage speaks to reporters shortly after the Maine House and Senate both voted to over ride his veto of the state budget, at the State House in Augusta. The Republican governor's clash with Democratic lawmakers over whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act ended with the governor's veto and a vow by Democrats to try again. The story, one of several quarrels between the GOP governor and Democratic-controlled Legislature, was voted the top story of 2013 in Maine in a survey by The Associated Press and its member news organizations in Maine. Right: Sen. Troy Jackson, D-Aroostook County, speaks on June 26 during debate over the state budget shortly before the Senate voted to override the veto, at the State House.
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